A woman claimed she was mistakenly accused of parking in a Cheshire pub car park for over eight hours.
In reality, she said she stopped there two times for mere minutes to pick up and drop off her grandchildren.
Sue Bennett, 74, appealed the £60 fine three times, but was rejected over and over again.
She was worried she may be taken to court, until CheshireLive was sent confirmation that the fine was going to be cancelled.
On August 15, she had parked at The Tollemache Arms in Alpraham at 8.20am to meet her daughter, so she could look after her two grandchildren for the day.
Mrs Bennett said she then left the car park, which has a maximum stay of two hours, about 10 minutes later to return to her home in Tattenhall.
She then drove back to the pub shortly before 5pm to drop the boys off with their dad.
But when she received her fine from Smart Parking Ltd, which runs the car park, it came alongside two camera images, depicting her arriving at 8.20am, and departing at 4.56pm.
According to Mrs Bennett, there should be pictures of her leaving the car park in the morning, and re-entering later the same day.
She said she has receipts showing she paid for shopping and fuel at Sainsbury's in Chester later that day, and even has a video on her mobile phone of both her grandchildren eating breakfast as well as text messages she sent to her daughter - one of which confirmed the arrangements for dropping off the two boys.
"Some people have said 'why don't you just pay it?' - I don't want to pay out money I don't have," Mrs Bennett told CheshireLive, prior to the fine being cancelled.
"I'm a 74-year-old grandmother, I've never had a conviction in my life. This is now nothing to do with the fine but to uphold the principle of honesty."
Mrs Bennett added: "I appealed to Smart Parking explaining why I was there, which was to meet my daughter who was passing my grandchildren, aged 5 and 6, over to me in a safe area along the busy A51 to look after for the day, and then returning to the car park, passing them back to their father on his way home from work at around 5pm.
"In neither instance was I there for more than 10 minutes. This appeal was rejected on the basis that their cameras showed me arriving at 8.20am and leaving at 16.56pm but not showing me leaving in between.
"I then appealed to POPLA which is an independent adjudication service.
"My second appeal was rejected on the same basis, the camera only showed two photos. I appealed for the third time through POPLA, and this has just been rejected.
"This I believe is the last time I can appeal. I'm not quite sure what happens now, I presume they will take me to court if I don’t pay.
"This is now nothing to do with the fine but to uphold the principle of honesty. Each rejection was based on the fact their camera did not show me leaving in the morning, nor arriving in the afternoon."
She added: "According to Smart Parking, they claim every accessible entry and exit point to this car park is managed by either an entry or exit camera which takes an infrared image of the vehicle registration as it passes by.
"Also when I spoke to the management of the Tollemache Arms a few days after this PCN was issued, he stated that the car park is covered 24 hours by these cameras.
"The following is one of POPLA’S comments: 'Independent research has found that ANPR technology is generally reliable. I appreciate that there is the possibility for inaccuracies'. These cameras are not 100 per cent accurate, whereas my words are.
"My bank statement for the day in question actually shows I had been in Sainsbury's shopping and paying for that at 9.56am, and then on to Sainsbury’s petrol station paying for fuel at 10.08am on the day in question filling up my car."
After approaching Smart Parking about the fine, the company said it had experienced issues with people tampering with the cameras.
It also confirmed that after a "detailed investigation of all available information", Mrs Bennett's fine was cancelled.
A Smart Parking spokesperson said: "Smart Parking have been employed to manage the car park at the Tollemache Arms in order to address significant parking abuse and to ensure genuine customers of the premises can always find somewhere to park.
"In regard to the site itself, nefarious activity by some individuals have seen the cameras tampered with, balloons put in place to cover the cameras and vehicles situated so that incorrect images are taken. As such, we continue to monitor the site closely.
"We would remind all motorists to always closely check the terms and condition of use before driving onto private land and parking.
"However, in this particular case and following the detailed investigation of all available information, this charge was cancelled."
